Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Marius Victorinus on Galatians 3:20 and there being an Earthly and Heavenly ("Higher") Church

  

. . . Christ, who is in heaven and descended all the way into flesh, connects and joins the twofold church. He is a mediator, then, and as a mediator—his Mystery entrusted to angels—he liberates this church (meaning the members of the church) and brings it back to the higher church. (Stephen Andrew Cooper, Marius Victorinus' Commentary on Galatians [Oxford Early Christian Studies; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005], 292)

 

Christus, qui in caelis est et ad carnem usque descendit, utramque ecclesiam copulat et iungit. Est ergo mediator et, mysterio suo per angelos disposito, quasi mediator liberat istam ecclesiam, id est membra ecclesiae, et revocat ad superiorem ecclesiam. (Marii Victorini Opera, Pars II: Opera Exegetica [Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Editum Consilio Et Impensis Academiae Scientiarum Austricae LXXXIII, Pars 2; Vindobonae: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1986], 131)

 

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